Living donor transplantation offers a safe alternative for liver transplant patients
Amsterdam, September 26, 2022 – Demand for donor livers for transplant patients outstrips supply with over 15% of waitlist patients ...
Month: September 2022
Longhorned tick discovered in northern Missouri for first time, MU researchers find
The Longhorned tick causes the loss of millions of dollars in agricultural revenue to cattle producers worldwide, and it is ...
Texting may help reduce avoidable hospitalizations from nursing homes
Each year, billions of dollars are spent transferring residents from nursing homes to hospitals. Now, a research team at the University ...
Disarming the immune system’s lethal lung response
Neutrophils, the most abundant type of white blood cell, are the body’s first line of defense against infection. Foreign pathogens ...
Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis named Citation Laureates
Santa Fe Institute Professor Sam Bowles and External Professor Herb Gintis have been selected as 2022 Citation Laureates by Clarivate's Web of Science group "for providing evidence and ...
New UMBC research finds that viruses may have “eyes and ears” on us
New UMBC-led research in Frontiers in Microbiology suggests that viruses are using information from their environment to “decide” when to ...
DNA nets capture COVID-19 virus in low-cost rapid-testing platform
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Tiny nets woven from DNA strands can ensnare the spike protein of the virus that causes COVID-19, ...
New research throws doubt on old ideas of how hearing works
The way in which we experience music and speech differs from what has until now been believed. This is the ...
Coral genome reveals cysteine surprise
Model animals, such as mice and fruit flies, have provided scientists with powerful insights into how cellular biology works. However, ...
Looking back on 250 years of drought on the Korean peninsula
Many farmers battled extreme drought and heatwave conditions this year. The social and economic impacts of drought are nothing new. ...
New therapeutic target could check the progress of Alzheimer’s disease
A new study conducted by the scientist of the UMA Inés Moreno, in collaboration with the University of Texas, has ...
New UCI-led report illustrates potential of precision genome editing in treating inherited retinal diseases
Irvine, CA - September 23, 2022 - In a new paper, University of California, Irvine researchers explain how precision genome ...
A potential new treatment for brain tumors
A research question posed in Pankaj Desai’s lab has led to a decade of research, a clinical trial and major ...
Fighting fungal infections with metals
Each year, more than one billion people contract a fungal infection. Although they are harmless to most people, over 1.5 ...
Findings explain exceptional auditory abilities in Williams-Beuren Syndrome
Williams-Beuren syndrome (WBS) is a rare disorder that causes neurocognitive and developmental deficits. However, musical and auditory abilities are preserved ...
Mutation in key molecules could stop gonorrhea infection, biomedical sciences researchers find
ATLANTA—Creating a mutation that inhibits how the bacterial pathogen Neisseria gonorrhoeae causes gonorrhea, a common sexually transmitted infection, could offer a new ...
Europlanet Prize for Public Engagement 2022 awarded to the ‘Planets In Your Hand’ Tactile Exhibition
The 2022 Europlanet Prize for Public Engagement has been awarded to Dr Kosmas Gazeas and the team behind the ‘Planets ...
The Ministry of Economy signs agreement to support teaching and research in HPC/HPDA/AI
The University plans to launch a 120 ECTS Master's degree within the Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine, and is ...
Planetary-scale ‘heat wave’ discovered in Jupiter’s atmosphere
An unexpected ‘heat wave’ of 700 degrees Celsius, extending 130,000 kilometres (10 Earth diameters) in Jupiter’s atmosphere, has been discovered. ...
Scientists reveal the different effects on storm tracks between the upper- and lower-level eddy growth over the North Pacific
A well-known phenomenon in the atmospheric sciences that challenges the classical baroclinic instability theory of cyclone development is midwinter suppression. ...
